The Porsche 911 Turbo S packs jaw-dropping performance, but is it let down by its sky-high price tag? We put one through our vigorous road test to find out
I attempted to call out the numbers in 10mph increments from 20mph upwards and actually tripped up over the word 'fifty' because, before my mouth could even wrap itself around the second syllable, 60mph had flashed upBear this in mind when you consider that, for the latest, 992-based incarnation of The Fastest Point-to-Point Car in the World, Porsche has tried to address one of the model’s long-standing drawbacks, which is that it has generally been a touch inert in its handling.
It means that, in the space of one generation, the 911 Turbo has been squeezed into much the same conceptual space as the regular 911 Carrera, for reasons both accidental and deliberate. However, it still occupies flagship status in the range with an asking price to match: £168,900 for our Turbo S test car, which is nearly twice that of the 911 Carrera and, more pointedly, on a par with the
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